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Latrines for all rural families by March 2012
BHUBANESWAR: All below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) families in the rural areas will be provided latrines by March, 2012. The state government has decided to set up a sanitation mission for the implementation of the scheme.
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Handbook on technical options for on-site sanitation
Provision of adequate sanitation to all communities has been a major challenge in India. This is also due to the fact such communities have full spectrum of variations in sociocultural and economic conditions.
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Community Sanitation Campaign: A study in Haryana
This article presents a case study of a successful Community-led Total Sanitation Campaign from Bhiwani district in Haryana. Social acceptance of hygienic sanitation practices has led to enormous benefits for the village community.
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Achieving sustainable sanitation in Asia
Development finance has largely been directed towards centralized systems of wastewater management, which has resulted in large populations being excluded from proper wastewater collection and treatment
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Achieving sustainable sanitation in Asia
Development finance has largely been directed towards centralized systems of wastewater management, which has resulted in large populations being excluded from proper wastewater collection and treatment
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Evaluation of Rural Drinking Water Programmes: Committee on Estimates (2016-17)
This Report of the Committee deals with the action taken by the Government on the recommendations contained in the Second Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject ‘Evaluation of Rural Drinking Water
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Standard operating procedure for responding to natural disasters: rural drinking water supply and sanitation
This standard operating procedure will include all functions pertaining to disaster prevention, institutional mechanism, preparedness, early warning, relief, recovery and rehabilitation. This standard
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Tynsong for trying new toilet technology
After Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma, the eco-friendly bio-digester toilets mainly used by the army in high altitude regions of the Himalayas has caught the fascination of Community and Rural Development
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Sanitation linked to malnutrition, says Jairam
A new series on maternal and child malnutrition in The Lancet has revealed how malnutrition can be tracked even in unborn children by linking their weight with their gestational age. The figures for India
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Background note and agenda for the national conference of the State Ministers in-charge of sanitation
State Ministers Conference is scheduled to be held on 28th October, 2010 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
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Women can do it
<p>Be it health, water, cleanliness or alcohol consumption, villages in rural Maharashtra are witnessing a silent movement in the last few years, thanks to the women sarpanches at the helm.</p>
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Output-based aid for sustainable sanitation
The objective of this study is to investigate how output-based aid (OBA) could be used to increase sustainable access to sanitation services.
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Proper sanitation
People of Bangladesh, particularly the poorer section who live in rural areas do not have proper sanitation facilities. Those who have no ability to install sanitary latrines, make a pit at some corner of the house and use it as latrine which spread bad smell and pollute air and surroundings. The children defecate at open places which is equally harmful to the environment.
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Awareness and IEC exposure on sanitation/hygiene among the rural people
Poor sanitation is one of the most embarrassments of the world. Open defecation, cheap sanitation and hygiene practices claim the health and lives of human beings and creates an unfriendly environment.
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Workshop on rural sanitation and water arrangements concludes
Bhopal: The novel technical methods for ensuring availability of drinking water in the rural areas and increasing groundwater table should be publicised at the national level so that people of the entire country can take advantage of these methods. This decision was taken at a two-day state level workshop after discussions between the filed officers and administrative officers.
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In Quest of Elusive Toilets
Traveling around in Arunachal Pradesh is an experience of a lifetime. With geographical and infrastructural hurdles, very less mortals must have done the globe-trotting business here except for Tomi Ete, a technocrat in various capacities as a government employee.
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Kerala to be first major State to be declared ‘nirmal’
Kerala will be the first major state to be declared open defecation-free, the Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said here. This will be effective from November 1, the State Formation
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AP lags behind in villages
Hyderabad, Dec. 16: Around 85 per cent of the rural population in the state still defecates in the open despite efforts made to end the practice through the total sanitation campaign. Though 58 per cent of the the rural areas have toilets, their use is only around 30 per cent.
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Swachh Bharat: policy brief on rural sanitation and urban solid waste management in India
On 15 August 2014, the Honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, announced the intention to launch a new mission, Swachh Bharat, on 2 October 2014, Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. Intended